I hear your question, and here's my answer:Nothing gives you the right to benefit from my hard work. However, if I want to live in a peaceful, stable society, it is in my own best interest to chip in.That concept may make some people's skin crawl. They'll call me a collectivist. But if they interact positively with anyone who received a public education, anyone who has been protected by the police or assisted by firefighters, driven on roads, lived in a country safe from external military invasion, anyone who has ever collected unemployment or social security, then they are hypocrites. The chances that they've paid their fair share or more is slim. Many of the social services that the government provides are absolutely critical to our country's stability and growth, and they are provided by the government precisely because no non-governmental organization took the job.You can go too far with social services of course, and so we have to be careful about that, but this recently over-promoted idea that we'd be better off if it was 100% every man for himself is absolutely myopic. If one really believes that, then they should go someplace where there is no government intervention. What you will find is that these places are usually subsistence farmers if you're lucky and warlord territories if you're not. There is no successful society on earth that does not practice some degree of collectivism.So I guess another way to answer your question: you have the right to benefit from my hard work because it helps me live in a stable country.Working out the details of how much is what all the debate is about. Dismissing it entirely is idiocy.